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SB 442 enjoyed widespread bipartisan support and may have been the best example of compromise during the 2023 legislative session.

With the budgeting season just weeks away, the City of Missoula on Wednesday rolled out its strategic plan for the next three years – one that places emphasis on goals around climate, equity and housing while looking for new opportunities and new partnerships.

Jim Elliott writes, "The question politicians need to ask is 'How much money will we secure for the honest American taxpayer when we catch the unpatriotic tax cheats?'"

Later this month, Missoula home owners and others around the state will receive what they may dread the most – the state's latest appraised value of their property.

The unexpected first-year bounty will be poured into early learning and child care programs, and school districts in need of dollars for construction and renovation projects.

Just over a year into Montana’s recreational marijuana program, the legal framework for the system has shifted again with new laws passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Greg Gianforte this week.

With the public's tolerance for urban camping growing thin, city officials on Monday said they're looking at all solutions, but shelter options for the city's homeless population are thin and without them, there isn't much they can do.

ov. Greg Gianforte has vetoed a bill that would have provided some state funding to support Lake County’s law enforcement services on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

The veto of the bill and the abrupt adjournment has also rankled some Republicans who appear to be split on everything that happened during the final day of the session.

Tracy Sharp writes, "Both Parties have for too long willfully created inflation through the false belief that as long as they have a printing press, they can create wealth."